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Week of June 12, 2015
English AA meetings are held in pubs. First
up…
Kingsman: The Secret Service
The hardest part of being British secret
service is not getting swept up in the royal baby excitement.
Thankfully, there’s a genocidal maniac in
this action movie to keep operatives occupied.
Recruited by Galahad (Colin Firth) to test
for the Lancelot position on an Arthurian inspired spy ring, street-thug Eggsy
(Taron Egerton) quickly proves he’s not the ideal candidate.
But when a dotcom genius (Samuel L.
Jackson) divides the agency and unleashes a device that drives users into a
homicidal rage, Eggsy and the remaining agents are the only ones left who can
stop him.
A stylish send-up of the well-worn British
spy-genre – including the stereotypical gadgets and idiosyncratic villain -
this good-humoured adaption of the graphic novel may deviate from its source
material, but its eye-popping action and sly script more than compensate.
Strangely, I always assumed British secret
service just took assassin bullets intended for the Queen’s corgis. Green Light
Project Almanac
When travelling through time be sure to
tell your pre-Internet self to start coming up with passwords for the future
that contain an upper-case letter, number and special character.
Unfortunately, when the time-travelers in
this sci-fi movie meet themselves, they disappear.
Combining discarded apparatus his inventor
father designed for the military with some household items of his own, MIT
student David (Jonny Weston) constructs a time machine.
Naturally, he uses it to head back in time
with his sister (Virginia Gardner) and two friends (Allen Evangelista, Sam
Lerner) to change their current existence for the better.
But their constant meddling with the time
stream soon has dire consequences on their present.
With its found-footage premise serving as
its only innovative – albeit nauseating – idea, this predictable MTV produced
pap is a less-than-forgettable entry in to the paradoxical sub-genre.
Incidentally, statistics say that most
teenage males will crash their first time machine. Red Light
***Alternate History Class***
My Science Project
The best science projects are the ones that
evacuate the school for a week.
The one in this sci-fi movie, however, may
vacant the entire town.
Combining a discarded piece of alien
technology he stole from a military base with a car battery, high-school senior
Michael (John Stockwell) and his friend Vince (Fisher Stevens) unwittingly open
a portal to an alternate universe.
When the unit goes on the fritz, its up to
the boys to deactivate it before it displaces their community from its current
time and space.
But to do that they must return to their
high school which is overrun with dangerous creatures from Earth’s past and
possible future.
Introducing the idea of alternative
realities decades before audiences were interested, this box-office bomb from
1985 is actually a hilarious hidden gem.
Unfortunately, having educators from
different eras in the same school will reignite the debate on corporal
punishment.
He’s a Lunchtime Traveler. He’s the…
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